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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-08-06
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Common Council convened
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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-08-06

Westminster Fire Department has de-
to attend the fremen's celebration at
lestown next Wednesday.
buring the storm last Saturday morning
70 cows belonging to John w. Lampert, near
Kew Windsor, were struck and killed by
lightning.
Mr. Jacob P. Baltozer was on Thursday
appointed Justice of the Peace for Manches-
ter district, in the place of Justice Henry
Motter, deceased.
= Mr. John Marsh's horse Carroll had brush
yon The race track last Monday with horse
Rbelongingto Mr.. Frank Murray, of Baltimore,
land came out winner.
A horse belonging to Mr.. Chas. V. Wantz,
of this city, injured itself so badly in the sta
bic on Thursday night of last week it had to
be killed on Sunday.
The Methodist Protestant Sunday School,
this city, will hold their animal picnic next
Thursday, near Avondale, in the woods of
Mr.. William A. Shriver.
Mr.. Edwin D. Mikesell, a nephew of JUS
tice Peter B. Mikesell, of this city, and ma
tive of this county, died at his home in Adams
county, Pa, on the 9th ult., aged 45 years.
Mr.. George w. Albaugh sold on Thursday
to Mr. Jesse Beaver the Nathan Diehl farm,
containing 1l3 acres, near Warfedsburg.
Mr.. Albangh only purchased the farm few
weeks ago.
Some of the young players of Westminster
are engage in getting up base ball club, and
are succeeding very well. Grounds on Centre
street have been secured, and game may be
expected shortly.
The Republican County Central Committee
met on Thursday and called primaries for
Saturday, August 20, and convention on
Monday, the 22d. The convention will only
select delegates to the state convention.
n Octavus Devries raised on his Henry
i'm an average of twenty three bushels
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-14
shlpplnr cod 3 Eareps.

When one recalls the millions upon
millions of dollars IN gold that ahIlusiiy
seek Europe to provide for the necessities
of our import trslde, the question. ef how
gold is shipped 10 Europe becomes 3
curious ard Interesting one The Bank
of America is the largest single shipper
of gold abroad. Shipments are made IN
stout kegs, very like the ordinary beer
keg. Every one contains $50. 600 IN coin
or in bar gold. The latter Is the faycrIte
for these shipments, since the govern
ment has permitted the subltreaetry to
exchange bar for gold coin, as coin Ia
81, coo, 600 shipment is liable TO loss by
abrasion of FROM eight to twenty ounces,
or from $fsS to $500; and the bars only
lose about threc-fourths of that amount.
Where coin il sent double eagles are pre-
ferred. They are put in stout canvas
bags, each big containing 195 double
eagles, or 5000, and ten bags ill each
keg.
Alsput the only pracaution taken
against tampering with kegs is a treat
ment of the keg ends, technically known
as s.red tipping. Four holes are bored
at equal intervals in the projecting rim
of the slaves above the head. Red tape
Is run through these, crossing on the
kegs head, the ends meeting at tie CEN
ter, where they are sealed 10 the head=by
the hardest of wax and stamped with the
consignor's S name. The average irsar-
ance is about $500 per ST, 600, 600.
Then there is an expense of 81 a keg for
packing and carriage aboard ship, or 5000
for the same sum; and the inevitable loss
by abrasion, whatever it may prove to
be. There are great Wall street firms
shipping from $e5. 900, 900 to $40, 600. .Oe0
annually. Some of these have for years
insured themselves, and assert that tho
saving has been sufficient to replace aloss
of $1,000, 900. These are large figure.
But this lias become country Of large
figures and affairs. Edgar L. Wake
man in Globe-Democrat.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-14
rurner.s sloppr ,ranner.

Turner's abruptness of speech Is stir
remembered at Farnley. a genuine love
of art runs through the Fawkes family,
and one of the daughters, anxious for his
criticism, ventured one day timidly t.
lay before him water color drawing OF
her own. Bis only comment was, ssPut
it in jug of water. :" Her monentary
clIagrin was great, but on turning tic
advice over in her mind she became per-
suaded that in that one pregnant sentence
Turner had revealed one OF his secrets.
he certainly worked in what may be
called sloppy" manner.
Only once did he relax his usual Sc.
cretiveness, and let Mr.. Fawkes see him
at work. at breakfast one morning the
conversation turned upon war ships, and
Mr.. Fawkes, handing small ht OF paper
to Turner, said: ''5how me the size OF n
man of war on that. The idea tickIeI
Turner. He took his host to his room,
and in his presence and before the end Of
the morning produced the highly finished,
marvellous water color now hanging ii
the saloon at Farnley, called THE First
Rate taking IN Stores" The same ship
is repeated three times at different angles
and different distances, with every de-
tail accurate and clear. 1t was q wonder
full feat of memory and of speed, but tho
method of working was no less remarlI-
able. The paper was soaked, blistered,
daubed, rubbed, scratched with tiio
thumb nail Qkept hideousIy long for the
purpose), until at length beauty and order
broke from chaos. Magazine of Art.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-14
.sarmons and snaa Wat.r.. >.

The history of the search for specific
remedy for alcoholic excess is the story
of series of melancholy failures, like
the search for the philosophers stone or
the invention of the flying machine.
Thackeray presents one of his characters
IN the act of irrigating his interior with
small beer after an excess of punch at
Vauxhall, in the Waterloo year, declaring
that at that period soda water was un-
known. Byron, however, who survived
Waterloo only nine years, was familiar
with the more modern remedy, and
recommends sermons and soda WATER
the day after. To this simple prescrip
ton was afterward added that of red her.
ring, perhaps as provocative to more
soda water. In modern practice bromide
of potash has superseded these old FASH
ioned palliatives. while many topers pin
their faith to private prescriptions of their
own.-The Argonaut.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-14
An Interestinr Relic.

Eight years before Columbus discovered
America an old Portuguese sailor named
Diego Cam went cruising down the coast
of West Africa until he came to a great
river, ON whose south bank he set up a
big white stone and carved am inscription
upon it celebrating his discovery. 1t was
the mighty Congo, and for many years
the famous Pedra Padrao stood on the
shore bearing silent witness to the old
sailors achievement. Years later, when
all eyes We're turned 70 the New World.
the Congo was almost forgotten, and
when it next attracted notice the Pedra
Padrao had disappeared. The spot where
1T stood has for centuries been known as
Padrao Point. Three or four months
ago Baron Won Schwebin, the Swedish
traveller, heard from some natives of a
large fetch stone hidden IN the tall
jungle grass at some distance from the
beach. 1t was only after long palavers
with the chiefs that he obtained permis-
sion to visit the revered object. He
found to his delight the veritable Pedra
Padrao, its well known inscription only
partially effaced. This famous monu.
ment of great discovery viii doubtless
be treasured hereafter as one of the most
interesting relics Of the early navigators.
New York Sun.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-14
What poctors Prn.oril,..

The subscribers to The Chemist and
Druggist, London, having been asked to
send to the editor 10000 prescriptions, a
digest of the answers received shows
that spirits of chloroform, sal volatile.
glycerine, and sirup of orange peel take
high places as drugs most frequently pre-
scribed-to these being also added bro
mide of potassium, which ranks second
only to chloroform. Wine of fipecacuanha,
sulphate of quinine, bicarbonate of soda,
carbonate of ammonia, liquor ammonia,
acetatiss petassi bicarbonatis, and
spiritus etherin nitros are the other
members of the group of twelve drugs
most frequently ordered. Several of
these minister to the disorder of the
respiratory tract, and the time of the
year may have some influence on their
use. This kind of information cannot.
however, be regarded as representative.
Thus, il the statistics of some hospitals
and dispensaries were taken, bicarborlate
of soda. rhubarb, and gentian would, It
is thought, exceed the other drugs In re-
spect of frequency of prescription; fur
ther, spirit of chIorofcrm and sirup of
orange peel are mainly used as adjuncts.
Chicago Tribune.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-14
a Pretty indian rersn.l.

A pretty Indian legend is current here
this season. Chautauqua means ..the
place of easy death, and report saws
this Is how. the lake secured It's name
An Indian maiden, mourning over the
deathiof her lover, wandered away from
her people seeking a poisonous root. In
secluded spot on the lake shore she
found It, partook freely and lay down to-
await death. The poison created delirfunli
and a burning thirst. Ber lover seemed
to come to her ana offer fresh. cool
water, yet when she reached out ber
hands for the grateful drsrugnt he van
ished- She dragged herself to the edae.
OF the lake, and STOPPING over to cool her
parched lips in the waves, she saw her
lover beneath the water holding up his
arms to her. JoyfuIly she threw herself
into the water and was never seen again.
-Chautauqua Cor. New York Iribune
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-14
Napoleon as n Novel Render.

Napoleon, the greatest man of modern
times, was greedy novel reader. He
was one of the most voracious readers of
novels that ever lived. He was always
asking for the newest of the new, and
unfortunately even the new ronances OF
his period were hopelessly bad. Barber,
his librarian, had orders to send parcels
of fresh fiction to his majesty wherever
he might happen to be, and great loads
of novels followed Napoleon to Germany,
Spain, Italy, Russia. The conqueror was
very hard to please. He read In his trav-
cling carriage, and after slximming few
pages would throw volume that bored
him out of the window into the highway.
He might have been tracked by his trail
of romances, as was Hop-o' My Thumb
in the fairy tale by the white stones lie
dropped behind him. Poor Barber, who
ministered to passion for novels that
demanded twenty volumes day, was at
his wits end. He tried to foist on the
emperor the romances of the year before
last; but these Napoleon had generally
read, and he refused, with imperial scorn,
to look at them again. Andrew Lang.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-14
hay Fever an Aristocratio a1.,.dv.

The oldest note of national. personal
and sexual superiority ever heard of Il
susceptibility to hay fever. In DR.. Btor-
ell blackenzie's admirable monograph on
this complaint and its treatment, / fin.l
that among races. the English and Amer
ican; among classes, the upper and cul.
tiVated; and of the sexes, the male sex.
are especially susceptible to hay fever
In the north of Europe 1t IS almost un-
known. It Is rare In France, GERMANY.
Italy and Spain: whereas IN England i
is frequent, and in America prevalent.
Again. 50 per cent. OF It's martyrs are of
the upper class, while agricultural laleor-
ers, who are most exposed to the causes
Of the complaint, are least subject to itz,
attacks- Lastly, the male sex Is nor
liable to it than the female, IN the r.sse
of three to one Wherefore our suscep-
tibility to hay fever ..in reality affords
matter for self congratuIation, as in,li.
eating our superiority to less favored Deo-
pies in culture and civilization. ~ Iondo.r.
Truth
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-14
Bieedinr at the Nn..

In persistent hemorThage from the
nasal cavity, plugging the posterior mares
should not be done until an attempt has
been made to check the hemorrhage by
firmly grasping the rose with the finger
and thumb, SO as completely to prevent
the air from passing through the cavity
in the act of breathing. This simple
means, if persistentiy tried, VIII, in
which forms at the rupture IN the blood
vessel is sdisplaced by the air being drawn
forcibly through the cavity IN the ATTEMPT
of the patient to clear the nostrils. If
this air IS prevented from passing through
the cavity, the clot consoIidates IN posi-.
ton and the hemorrhage Is checkel.-.
Demorest's Magazine.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-14
ZEE cLoTA oF eoLp.

The cloth OF gold e woven slight
or deeds that speak IN wrongs despite,
OF Love that sheds Der lives helcW
The perfect JOY the angels know
lis wrought by souls thRt seek the right.
In city streets In hIaelzest night,
In country ways with sunshine trieht,
Love weaves alike ON friend and Zoe
The cloth OF gold. a-tf
It's folds by charity are tight
To cover scars, TO save from blight,
And DER the low ring brow OF woe
To shed soothing. healing glow.
II mantles sin with mercy S light
The cloth of gold.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-14
rhe I,ns.lnn I.nnrnnrn.

Russian, it is true, is an Indo- Euro
pean language, yet its analogies with
other members of the same great fainil;-
of speech are so obliterated, where lao6
altogether lost. as to make the students
path veritable Terra incognita-sn unil-
Illuminated tract in which almost ever
inch of ground has 10 be won by asreciai
effort of the intellect rather Chan by any
brightness of pathological memory or dc
pendence upon Grinlm's famous law Of
consonantal interchange. It cannot be
denied that many foreign words have
erept into Russian. But this does not
alter the character of the language,
which remains, in spite of sprinkling OF
foreign elements, wholly rounded off i;
itself
hand, is tire formation. of Russian as a
spoken tongue. Credited, somewhat
loosely, with possessing all the sounds
heard in other ndo-European languages,
it has vowels and consonants that are
rarely, even after years of practice, cor
Tectly enuncialed by foreigners. The
soft 81, a peculiar liquid sound; tla
letter 'tshch, expressed with a single
character; the final st ard .sn''-thcse
are all difficulties Of formidable charac-
ter, and need mastering at Us early a
stage In the students progress as possi-
ble. Having regard to its infections
alone, one might call Russian an ancient
tongue reslIscitated for the use of
people of modern times. Every word III
the sentence must fit in. so TO speak, with
every other; verbs must be in agreement
visible as well as implied--with their
nominatives, adjectives with their nouns.
and nouns with almost every part of
speech. The Russian noun has three de-
clensions, each containing three sets of
forms and no fewer than seven cases.
The verb is more Formidable stiIl.-New
York Mail and Express.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-14
Age of Niacara Fans.

Since the original survey of the gorge
in 1S41, the science of geology has made
surprising progress. 1t has been able,
perhaps, to reduce the age of Niagara
Falls from 200, GOO years to less than 20,-
600. The falls, it now tells us, instead
of cutting their way up the gorge from
Lewiston, began their existence, as one
cataract, not more than a mile north of
where they now are.-Jane Meade WeIch
in Harper's Maeazine.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-14
sac pepo,it in co1orado.

In the middle of the Colorado desert
there is a curious depression in the earth's
surface, through which the Southern
Pacific railroad runs. The lowest point
is 260 feet below the sea level. and here
is great body of salt, more pure than
any known to commerce, and in an
abundance that may supply the world IL
all other resources should be exhausted.
From point on the road called Iadio
the descent is rapid to this place of salt.
It was once an inland sea from which
the waters have apparently passed away
by evaporation, leaving a salt deposit
that resembles ice. Standing upon its
margin, we look upon perfectly level
and white crust of salt, some thirty or
forty miles in length and perhaps twenty
in width. A tramway is laid over the
crust to distance of more than mile,
over which steam dummy and train OF
freight cars run to the mill where the
salt is ground. Beyond the mill smaller
engine pushes its smaller cars further out
Npon the salt crust where the salt Is
gathered.
The process of collecting is very
simple. Laborers, provided each with
wheelbarrow, shovel and adze, go out
upon the salt field, pick the surface to
the depth of an inch or two, gather bar
row loads and wheel them to the cars.
This salt crust varies in thickness; in
some places it is but few inches above
the mud and water, and in some places
nearly Eve feet in thickness. Liverpool
salt must be kiln dried before being
ground. Nature sends this to the mill so
dry that it may be ground as fine as
flour. AT the mill it is bagged and
marked for shipment, and is ready for
table or dairy use. This salt is 80 per
cent. pure, and is placed upon the mar
ket as "New Liverpool . 1t is un-
doubtedly the best and purest salt in the
market.-The Argonaut.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-14
Handy for the censn. Ts,..r.

Occidental statistcians have long been
accustomed for some reason to regard
with DOUBT the periodical reports CON
corning the population of China, but m
asmuch as the Chinese law requires every
householder to hang at his front door a
list of the inmates of his house, it seems
as though it ought to be easy to make am
accurate census. by one which the offi-
cials of the empire have recently afforded
the population Is 450, O00, Brooklyn
We judge. in this world, not by inten-
tinr' ha't t1v rAsliIt - :l,ristian Reid
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-14
~ ACARD.

To all who are suffering from the errors and
indiscretions OF youth, nervous weakness. early
decay, loss Of manhood. &C., will send a recipe
that win cure you. FREE OF CHARGE This great
remedy was discovered by missionary in South
America. Send a sclr-addressed envelope to the
Rev. JOSEPH t. IsarAS, Station D. Ns.S PORK Guy
oct. I3-Iy.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-14
INC changes bal Yesnrins.

As regards accuracy of detail, ssBen
Hur'' stands in the front rank of Iistori-
cal novels. A curious slip, however, oc-
Guns at the beginning of book 3, where
the author speaks of the traveller in the
year "a being able to see the smoking
cone of Vesuvius. 1t was not till 70 A. d.
that Vesuvius again became active. Since
that period Vesuvius has undergone great
changes. 1t is probably higher now than
ever before. Indeed from 1915 to 1868
1t is said to have increased in height over
300 feet. Chicago Herald
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-14

In Ireland $40, 600 people speak the
Celtic language. and 81, 600 of that num-
bar speak no aEher.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-14
FOR SALE.

Two large, bay horses from Is to 16
i hands high, with harness and wagon.
Will work anywhere. Sold our farm
and have no use for them. Price $3.50.
Apply al New Haven Mills.
aug s-4w.-pd. ~
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-14

There are few women who are good
Judges of their own faces.-Dr. VIM. A.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-14
ATTORNEYS.

TAMES 3. MENAGER,
j ATTORNEY and COUNSELOR at
Law. Practices in the Courts of Mason
and Putnam Counties and in the Su-
prerne Court of Appeals of West Eir-
giuia- Office, Room NO-2, Court House,
Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
april :. 1886.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-11-02
SOLVED IN SLEEP.
How Pennsylvania Farmer Cracked .
Tough Mathematical Nut.


How Pennsylvania Farmer Cracked .
Tough Mathematical Nut.
Rev. J. Milton Akers writes from Pine
island, Mimi, to the Methodist Christian
Advocate as follows: "In the winter of
1890 the writer was teaching school in
Bedford County, Pa, and boarding with a
substantial farmer named Anthony Fell
ton. The family was one Of remarkable
ingenuity. One night after school the
conversation turned upon difficult prob
lens in mathematics. mentioned one
that my brother had sent me, which con-
sidered quite intricate. The question was
as follows q reproduce from memory:
Sold 5000 ellis Flemish of cloth for $21,-
225, and gained as much per yard as one
eighth Of the prime cost Of an English ell.
What is the prime cost per yard, and Of
the whole piece?' On repeating the ques-
ton my host told me promptly IL could
not be done.
81 repeated it for him several times dur
ing the evening until he had it's condi-
tions well fixed in his mind. assured
him / had solved it by algebra, of which
he knew nothing. The next morning, on
coming from my rooms, he said: Il can
tell you all about the problem now.' Upon
asking him how he reached the solution,
he said Il dreamed IL OUT I smiled in
creduously, for had no faith in such
straight dreaming. / said: Let me see
your solution and to my establishment
aud delight he produced an arith-
metical solution that was marvel Of an
ally teal simplicity. | then asked more
particularly about the dream. He said:
An old man, to whom had at one time
gone to school, came to me in my dream.
and, seeing / was troubled about some-
thing, asked me the cause. repeated the
question to him and told him that had
told the master it could not be solved.
The old man said to me: at makes no diff
ference what you told the master; it can
be worked" And he remembered it so
distinctly that he solved the question by
the instructions received in his dream"
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-11-02
A Son sues His Father.

A remarkable lawsuit is about to stir the
gossips of Berlin. 1t is an action for dam
ages for defamation, preferred by a man
against his father. Both son and father
are rich. The latter having lost his first
wife married again, but the son re-
fused to love his fathers second wife,
which circumstance SO embittered the
father that he is now harboring the most
violent hatred against the son. The latter
paid visit to his mothers grave, and find
ing the inscription on the stone much
faded gave orders to have 1t regilded
and that the bill should be sent to him.
He also made it a practice to regularly
adorn the grave with fDwers. The father
noticing the fresh gliding sat down to
write letter TO his son forbidding him to
sver do any thing more for the adornment
Of his mothers grave, "as otherwise means
and ways would be devised to tie his
hands evermore." The letter Is written in
such abusive language that the son has in
instructed his lawyer to prosecute the
father for defamation.